You should not make jokes about this I feel to unhappy with the entire exhange rate situation. I have become so poor just by not having exchanges all my euro's to yen the first day I arrived here. It went from 1 euro to 178 to 124 :S I feel so unhappy about it.

weirdo36 wrote:You should not make jokes about this I feel to unhappy with the entire exhange rate situation. I have become so poor just by not having exchanges all my euro's to yen the first day I arrived here. It went from 1 euro to 178 to 124 :S I feel so unhappy about it.

ummm.. the joke is about the names of the institutions and word play.. besides, if one can't make fun of the harsh part of life, what is there to make fun of? We are all feeling the crunch, so, don't think for one minute you are the only poor soul out ther who is feeling it.. I just lost my house, and most of what was in it, and I still thought this funny.. care to take a piss on that would you?

weirdo36 wrote:..... I feel to unhappy with the entire exhange rate situation. .....

There was a story on a news and current affairs TV show here last night about a rush on USD in Japan because the Yen has hit 13 year highs against the Greenback. Apparently investors are borrowing money from Japanese banks at near zero interest rates and buying USD.

But as my bicephalic friend has pointed out the humour is in the word play not making light of the global financial crisis so lighten up

two_heads_talking wrote:.... I just lost my house, and most of what was in it, .....

That is very sad news. がんばって

two_heads_talking wrote:.... care to take a piss on that would you?

Do you mean "take the piss"?

Don't complain to me that people kick you when you're down. It's your own fault for lying there

chikara wrote:There was a story on a news and current affairs TV show here last night about a rush on USD in Japan because the Yen has hit 13 year highs against the Greenback. Apparently investors are borrowing money from Japanese banks at near zero interest rates and buying USD.

The trend is HUGE right now. They even have live sites where you can change your money into/out of yen in realtime.But a lot of people don't want to wait for the US economy to improve, so are buying New Zealand dollars, as their rate is supposed to increase by 3% in the next year or so (according to my co-worker at least).

I've been considering it, but putting enough money into that to make it worth it just scares me.Same reason I try not to play the stock market too much.

furrykef wrote:I doubt it. "Take the piss on that" means "to get the worst of it"; "take a piss on that" means something like "rain on that parade".

(I just realized I translated idioms with other idioms. Oh well.)

- Kef

In Australian English "to take the piss" means "to make fun of" which would have fitted in with the humour context.

I meant as furrykef mentioned "rain on my parade".. Although I am familiar with the British and the Australian meanings, I wasn't trying to be funny at that point. Now, as I look back on your response, it would have definately been right in line with my real life drama vs comic relief, I will keep that in mind in the future. In the US, pissing on something is hardly seen as a positive thing and many times it is equated to rain...

two_heads_talking wrote:.... I just lost my house, and most of what was in it, .....

chikara wrote:That is very sad news. がんばって.

It is sad and rather emberassing as well, but I can only move forward and try not to replicate the same situation that put me in this predicament. Your concern is appreciated, thank you very much.

two_heads_talking wrote:. I just lost my house, and most of what was in it, and I still thought this funny..

Sorry to hear about the lost house. (I took some blows too but not that big). The real economy is certainly no fun nowadays. But I also found the joke great , it was new to me, so I just e-mailed it to a bunch of friends. Thanks for sharing it, two_heads_talking.